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wild grapes, and scattered them about the place. A seedling 

 appeared, evidently the offspring of these truant grapes. 

 Mr. Bull tended it, and in 1843 he obtained a bunch of grapes 

 from it. He planted seeds of this bunch, and a resulting 

 plant fruited in 1849. The fruit had such merit that all 

 other seedlings were destroyed. The new variety was named 

 the Concord. ... It is the most important type of Amer- 

 ican grapes, and the really successful commercial viticulture 

 of the country dates from its dissemination; and yet this 

 grape is a pure native fox-grape, and evidently only twice 

 removed from the wild vine." 



325. The grape industry. Grapes of one kind or another 

 grow wild in all parts of the United States, and in sections of 

 Canada and Mexico. The cultivated forms, also, find con- 

 genial conditions in widely separated areas of the continent. 

 A large industry has grown up in the province of Ontario. 

 New York contains several centers of note, especially the 

 lower Hudson Valley, and the Lake region in the central- 

 western part of the state. Extensive vineyards are located 

 in Michigan, and in the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas. 

 There are also some plantings in Alabama and Georgia. 

 Those portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York border- 

 ing on Lake Erie have long been noted as grape-growing 

 regions and there are extensive plantings in the interior 

 valleys of California. 



326. Propagation, planting, and care. The grape is 

 propagated from cuttings of ripened wood of the preceding 

 summer's growth. These cuttings may in exceptional cases 

 consist of a single eye, planted in sand much as if they were 

 seeds; but this method is resorted to only in the case of very 

 valuable plants where rapid increase in number is desired. 

 Ordinarily, the cuttings are from eight to eighteen inches in 

 length; the longer ones are for very light open soil that is 

 likely to dry out to a considerable depth, the shorter cuttings 

 for the relatively heavy and retentive soils. In those sections 



